Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Schedule for Xen 3.0.4

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:58:12AM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:42:53AM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:28:43AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > 
> > > release candidates for 3.0.4 once or twice a week until we have a tree
> > > suitable for final release (hopefully by the middle of December). Meanwhile
> > 
> > Does this mean we have less than a month until the Xen API work is
> > frozen, as was previously the plan for 3.0.4? We're still discussing
> > aspects of it and AFAIK there's still a lot of work to do in just
> > finishing defining it, never mind coding it or any "can I actually
> > program against this" stuff.
> 
> No (sorry for the confusion).  Xen 3.0.4 will contain a "preview" of the
> Xen-API (i.e. what we've got now) but this will not be the final version of
> the protocol or data-model, and will not be declared stable or supported.  We
> will ensure that the 3.0.3 protocols are supported in 3.0.4, and will take the
> time during this freeze to make sure that backwards compatibility to
> 3.0.3-based clients is all in place.
> 
> Xen 3.0.4 _will_ contain a working version of "the lifecycle patches", that
> is, the xm new, start, shutdown, delete, suspend, and resume functionality.

Before 3.0.4 comes out, there are a couple of fixes we previously discussed
on xen-api to ensure the lifecycle patches don't break semantics of the
existing SEXPR / XMLRPC APIs.

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2006-10/msg00009.html

It has also previously been mentioned that XenSource were planning some 
work on xenstored to address the terrible performance of its transaction
code. It'd be nice to see that in 3.0.4 if its ready ?

Dan.
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